Meta-parametric Design with Digital Blue Foam

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Our team has developed custom algorithms to produce a vast population of topologically variant designs. These contains a building shape vocabulary, transformation rules, and methods to select and process rules.

Standard parametric modelling tools require predetermined logic. While slight variations are possible, the general structure and hierarchy of a design are set at this point. This runs counter to the goal of the conceptual design process. At this stage, the design flexibility, ambiguity, and variety afforded by meta-parametric design are most valuable.

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While examples of meta-parametric design in architecture are in their infancy, our approach innovates on previous work in several ways:

- Increased Shape Variety

- Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm

- Graph-based design representation

- Cloud computing power

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